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Practical and comprehensive, this handy reference provideshelpful information for all aspects of home care. This manual is basedon a successful course, Transition Into Home Care, that was created atBrooklyn College of Nursing by the two authors. Many contributors addtheir expertise to give step-by-step guidance through every facet ofthe home care experience. The book begins with the referral, and takesyou through the home visit, initiation of community resources, andtermination of home services. Readers will learn all the essentials ofmaking the visit, dealing with unique environments, patient populationsand problems, and the issues affecting the home health nurse in aprofessional role. Coverage includes goal planning, teaching, learning,formulating care plans, and all forms of documentation. Discussion isoffered on the most challenging and controversial issues today,including TB, HIV, Mental Health Services in the home, High Techdevelopments, and maternal/newborn care. Five case studies provide areal life look at home care practice. ... Read more

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HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE HANDBOOK: Quality, Compliance, And Reimbursement includes everything hospice and palliative care providers need to know. For each of the hospice-related clinical problems presented, the handbook offers detailed standards and documentation guidelines including ICD-9 (diagnostic) codes, NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses, service skills, including the skills of the interdisciplinary hospice care team, outcomes and goals, and specific tips for reimbursement and quality. This compact, easy-to-use handbook is the only guide that offers clinicians complete coverage of all hospice-related conditions with practical and specific guidance for hospice care and documentation. It takes the guesswork out of hospice goals, interventions, and outcomes. ... Read more

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hospice and palliative care handbook
This book is directed at home health based programs who also care for the terminally ill.
It is not specific to hospice care under medicare reembursement. It is of little use to nurses working in hospice care and at times is very inappropriate in its advice for the care of terminally ill patients.

Excellent Fundamentals
I am the Adminstrator of a Hospice and Home Health Agency and recently bought this book for our staff to use on a routine basis. To date I have had nothing but positive comments from the staff on its comprehensiveness and its ease of use. Despite the fact that I am an administrator and not a clinical person, I found the book easy to read and excellent in providing critical clinical and administrative detail to help in the day-to-day and moment-to-moment issues that we deal with in Hospice. ... Read more

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Doctors have a special position in society; they are looked up to as healers and trusted friends.This book examines thirteen cases of doctors who have cruelly exploited their privileged position to kill for lust, greed and power.

There are cases of wife murderers, children killers, homicidal mania, flights from justice, poisoners, and elderly victims who willed their physicians all their worldly goods before being murdered.

This is a macabre but highly entertaining examination of the most extreme form of medical malpractice— premeditated murder. ... Read more

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State Univ. of New York, Albany. Workbook for those taking the seven-session course. Sessions include: introductory group meeting, communication workshop, personal memory album workshop, and an activities workshop. Also available as a set with the leader's manual and videocassette. Softcover. ... Read more

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A Nurses World, Volume III: Things I Didn't Learn In Nursing School gives you the unique perspective of Rachel Andersen's experiences, how and why she got started in her nursing career. A nurse doesn't stop giving when she's off the clock. As Good Samaritan situations arise, Rachel responds. These true stories include warm touching moments and bizarre hair-raising encounters that students considering a nursing career may want to consider, nurses will nod and think "I had a patient that...", and the general public will enjoy as much as reading medical suspense novels, the Chicken Soup Series, or Reader's Digest: All In A Day's Work.

I was so distracted by the tank for a few seconds I forgot to keep track of Rudy. It was just long enough for him to knock me flat on the floor and make a grab for the keys in my pocket. All four posse members dove for him. I ended up on the bottom of the tackle. I couldn't move. I couldn't breathe, and I couldn't think what to do next."

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No Place Like Home sets out to determine why home care, despite its potential as a cost-effective alternative to institutional care, remains a marginalized experiment in care giving. Nurse and historian Karen Buhler-Wilkerson traces the history of home care from its nineteenth-century origins in organized visiting nurses' associations, through a time when professional home care nearly disappeared, on to the 1960s, when a new wave of home care gathered force as physicians, hospital managers, and policy makers responded to economic mandates.Buhler-Wilkerson links local ideas about the formation and function of home-based services to national events and health care agendas, and she gives special attention to care of the "dangerous" sick, particularly poor immigrants with infectious diseases, and the "uninteresting" sick--those with chronic illnesses. ... Read more

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Recently, professional understanding of dementia has broadened and has opened up new thinking about how we can provide more imaginative, responsive and 'person-centred' services for people with dementia. Against this background A Handbook of Dementia Care provides a wide-ranging, up-to-date overview of the current state of knowledge in the field. It is comprehensive, authoritative, accessible and thought-provoking. It asks:

* How do different theoretical perspectives help us to understand dementia?
* What do we know about what constitutes good practice in dementia care?
* How can we improve practice and service delivery in dementia care?
* How do policy, organizational issues and research impact on dementia care?

This handbook provides a unique, multidisciplinary and critical guide to what we know about dementia and dementia care. It is written by leading academics, practitioners and managers involved in the development of dementia care. It demonstrates the value of a wide range of perspectives in understanding dementia care, reviews the latest thinking about good practice, and examines key ethical issues. It explores the way organizations, policy and research shape dementia care, and introduces a range of approaches to practice and service development.

A Handbook of Dementia Care is an essential resource for students and professionals in such fields as gerontology, social work, nursing, occupational therapy, geriatric medicine, psychiatry, mental health, psychology, social services and health services management, social policy and health policy. ... Read more